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Isolation and characterization of the first American bottlenosedolphin papillomavirus: Tursiops truncatus papillomavirus type 2

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2006
Title: Isolation and characterization of the first American bottlenosedolphin papillomavirus: Tursiops truncatus papillomavirus type 2.
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Name(s): Rehtanz, Manuela
Ghim, Shin-je
Rector, A.
Van Ranst, M.
Fair, Patricia A.
Bossart, Gregory D.
Jenson, A. Bennett
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Article
Date Issued: 2006
Publisher: Society for General Microbiology.
Place of Publication: London
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 8 p.
Language(s): English
Identifier: FA00007116 (IID), 10.1099/vir.0.82388-0 (doi)
Note(s): A novel papillomavirus (PV) was isolated from a genital condyloma of a free-ranging bottlenose dolphin inhabiting the coastal waters of Charleston Harbor, SC, USA: Tursiops truncatus papillomavirus type 2 (TtPV2). This novel virus represents the first isolated North American cetacean PV and the first American bottlenose dolphin PV. After the viral genome was cloned, sequenced and characterized genetically, phylogenetic analyses revealed that TtPV2 is most similar to the only published cetacean PV isolated and characterized thus far, Phocoena spinipinnis PV type 1 (PsPV1). A striking feature of the genome of TtPV2, as well as that of PsPV1, is the lack of an E7 open reading frame, which typically encodes one of the oncogenic proteins believed to be responsible for malignant transformation in the high-risk mucosotropic human papillomaviruses (HPVs). TtPV2 E6 contains a PDZ-binding motif that has been shown to be involved in transformation in the case of high-risk genital HPVs.
Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution 1646
This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available and may be cited as: Rehtanz, M., Ghim, S-j., Rector, A., Van Ranst, M., Fair P. A., Bossart, G. D., & Jenson, A. B. (2006). Isolation and characterization of the first American bottlenose dolphin papillomavirus: Tursiops truncatus papillomavirus type 2. Journal of General Virology, 87(12), 3559-3565. doi:10.1099/vir.0.82388-0
Subject(s): Charleston Harbor (S.C.)
Papillomaviruses
Tursiops truncatus
Bottlenose dolphin
Links: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1099/vir.0.82388-0
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007116
Host Institution: FAU